Quotes from Gerald Schroeder

Knowing the plumbing of the universe, intricate and awe-inspiring though that plumbing might be, is a far cry from discovering its purpose.

The real question is why is there "being"? The existence of existence is amazing, awesome.

The mystery that remains in the sunset is the riddle of why and how a mixture of seemingly inert, unthinking atoms of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, and several other varieties can produce humans capable of having the subjective experience we refer to as beauty, or the love that would have us kiss our kids good night. Science is no closer to answering those questions today than it was a century ago.

Spirituality not rooted in the reality of life's material needs rarely effects a meaningful gain.

We can say the word "metaphysical," meaning that which exists outside of the physical, but we cannot comprehend the metaphysical.

Light beams became alive, and became not only alive, but self-aware, and acquired the ability to wonder. The wonder is not whether this genesis took six days or fourteen billion years or even eternity.

From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.

Wisdom, information, an idea, is the link between the metaphysical Creator and the physical creation. It is the hidden face of God.

The claim in Psalms that "the heavens declare the glory of God and the firmament proclaims His works" (Psalms 19:2) is not a mere metaphor. The study of nature, even with all its intellectual rigor, is filled with spiritual wonder.

It simply lies beyond the capacity of the human mind. And if the Bible is correct, then what created our universe, God, was and is metaphysical.

Yet knowing the physics steals none of the wonder as the sky turns from blue to crimson, then deep purple, and finally embraces the black of night as Earth's rotation

According to our best understanding of the universe and equally according to the most ancient commentaries on the book of Genesis, there was only one physical creation. Science refers to it as the big bang. The Bible calls it the creation of the heavens and the earth. Every physical object in this vast universe, including our human bodies, is built of the light of creation.

Psalms 90:4: "A thousand years in your sight are like a day that passes.

Peter 3:8: "Unto the Lord, a day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day.

Why is there an "is"? Why is there something rather than nothing? For that answer both science and religion must turn to the metaphysical.

Psalm 19:1 declares: "The heavens proclaim the glory of God; the sky declares His handiwork.

But the Bible is anything but superficial. The Bible is not an easy read, and nature is not a simple study.

My hope is that we can leave behind preconceived notions and search for what the world and the Bible actually tell us about the God of creation.

In laboratories, we can see the results of experiments but we can't follow the reactions that lead to those results. The paths of those reactions may reside outside the physical measurements of length, width, height, and time. Physics has entered the metaphysical, the realm beyond the physically perceivable, in the fullest sense of that word.

In all known life, there are primarily twenty different amino acids. Stringing these twenty amino acids together in varied sequences produces varied proteins, just as intelligently stringing together the twenty-six letters of the English alphabet in varied sequences will produce varied sentences and sonnets.

The Age of Our Universe: Six Days and Fifteen Billion Years

Is a joke truly funny when we laugh at it, or is it merely some aberration of our frontal lobe?

Gravity is always attractive.

Biblical commentators [say that] the first six days of Genesis were six 24-hour days. This means that whoever was in charge recorded the passage of 24 hours per day. But who was there to measure the passage of time? Until Adam appeared on day six, God was watching the clock. And that is the key.